Category: L

A tax for supplying the church with lights. Anc. Inst. Eng

In Spanish law. An advocate. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 1, c. 1,

proposition of the tribune C. Aquilius Gallus, A. U. C. 672, regulating the compensation to be made for that kind of damage called “injurious,” in the cases of killing or wounding the

A writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privilege allowed. Reg. Orig. 202. LIBERTATIBUS EXIGENDIS 722 LIBERTY

In the law of contracts. A permission, accorded by a competent authority, conferring the right to do some act which without such authorization would be illegal, or would be a trespass or

Subjects.

A vessel serving the purpose of a light-house, usually at a place where the latter could not well be built.

Race; progeny ; family, ascending or descending. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224.

Pertaining to polite learning ; connected with the study or use of books and writings. The word “literary,” having no legal signification, is to be taken in its ordinary and usual meaning.

In Spanish law. Litispendence’. The condition of a suit pending iu a court of justice.

In French law. A lessee, tenant or renter.

The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to another. Cowell.

Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old English law, this term denoted the oral altercations of the parties to a suit, which led to the issue, now called the “pleadings.” It also designated

Lat. In Roman law. A term including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, either before the marriage. or on agreeing to it. or

Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolf’s, with a reward to him who should take it. Cowell.

Abbreviations used to denote, respectively, the three aca- demic degrees in law,

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An Old word for a lawyer. Domesday, I. 189.

in the most general sense, comprehends any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furzes, and heath. Co. Litt 4a. The word “land” includes not only the

An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees. Alon. Angl. 419.